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While a personal fitness instructor is most ideal and thus widely needed by people who do exercises at a gym, the expensive fee has hindered many of them to get one. Luckily, thanks to a group of student from Northeastern University, we can now rely on the squid-equipped shirt to keep track of our progress of fitness. The T-shirt is embedded with a set of electromyography (EMG) sensors attached to a box that pushes your workout data to a smartphone app. After that, you can check out the detailed information of your progress via a computer then.

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When going for an exercise such as jogging, the Troika Workout Towel Sweat-Trap is apparently something helpful. It is built with a pocket on the bottom, serving to safely hold your cellphone, cash or credit cards so that you won’t feel your items jumping and jumping in your pockets as you’re moving.

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The Elliptical Machine Office Desk is one of the most-complicated desks we’ve ever met. It is built with a semi-recumbent elliptical trainer that lets the users to exercise when busy with work. [Read the rest of this entry...]

MtEverClimb is a continuous rope-climbing machine that is quite ideal for small apartments. It takes up small space but ensures the users a full-body strength and cardio workout. Moreover, it is much safer than conventional rope climbing, since it doesn’t come with too high a height. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What you’ve seen here is another high-tech three-wheeler? If that’s what you thought, you’re completely wrong. Called “EX”, this new vehicle is powered by two 18-volt screwdrivers and it requires the driver to use his whole body to tilt and bend the vehicle. According to designer, the vehicle can accelerate to up to 30 km/h. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Specially designed for your dogs to keep a good figure, the Canine Treadmill has arrived. Available on Hammacher Schlemmer for $549.95, you can now order one if you’re wanting your dogs to use it soon. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Not all chairs can serve as a fitness apparatus, but we could at least turn to the GymyGym to see a case in which the chair plays a utilitarian role. It uses a patented flat-bungee seating system, offering four exercise stations to relax or strengthen all your major muscles. So with one such chair, you can always enjoy a fitness time even throughout your work days. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A Japan-based shoe manufacturer recently announced its new running shoes targeting at the youth market. It, similar to pedometers released by Nike, features a wrist watch that allows the users to obtain their exercise details conveniently. The sensors built inside the shoes can be easily activated when you touch your shoes with the watch. Since the pedometer is specially designed for kids, it also uses animation techniques to attract their customers more effectively. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I had never thought that the swimming pools would need an extra wall one day. I mean, the pools are absolutely thrown open to the public. Fortunately, the AquaClimb is not designed to keep people away, but to add more fun and playfulness to their swimming experiences. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Treadmill is a normal machine helping us to reduce the weight, but the drawbacks? Wow, you’ve lost the close communion with the nature! But the Treadmill Bike, a combination of the treadmill and a bicycle, is something that ensures you both a good figure and the fresh air. Most importantly, you won’t have to pay for the expensive gym membership fees any more. Really good news! [Read the rest of this entry...]

You’ll finally leave your footprints all over the world some day, if you’re to keep running on the treadmill…I’m not kidding, because the NordicTrack x7i Interactive Incline Trainer features a fitness database which will pull actual trail and marathon routes from Google Maps, when connected to the iFit Live. As a result, you can imagine yourself a marathon runner, when completing your route shown on the screen. Wearing a price tag of $2,000, the treadmill just aims to make you enjoy fitness more. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Perhaps even the fattest man would be in a good shape if he/she keeps riding a bike everyday. Then I’d like to suggest using the mini-sized bicycle for better efficacy! But obviously it’s not designed for those being excessively fat…

Just for fun!

Still remember the Jumping Light? Similarly, the battery charger designed by Jooyong Kim and Sungkyung Kim also makes a full use of the kinetic energy generated when you jump the rope. Put the rechargeable batteries into the rope’s handles, close the caps, keep jumping and then you’ll get full-charged batteries. That’s so easy! Ensuring you to master the latest information of the calories you’ve burned, the available energy to charge the batteries, etc, the device also comes with a screen on the handle. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Mike has six perfect abdominal muscles and that’s a real feather in his cap. You want to be like Mike, too? I suggest you have a try with the Magnetic Dumbbell designed by Sang-Hoon Lee. These dumbbells are North Pole charged, and when you lift them up, the four South Pole magnets on the ground will then add weight to the dumbbells due to the action of a magnetic field. It is really clever of Sang-Hoon Lee to issue this idea as an invention. Good work! [Read the rest of this entry...]

What dose fitness mean to you? Strong physique, slim figure, or anything else? Certainly, fitness always promises us a healthy, pleasant life. Unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity to go to a gym, due to the high membership fees or other reasons. So to allow everyone an everyday fitness at home, the 4Fitness is therefore designed, providing strength, endurance, balance, agility and mental training. Especially for small home, the 4Fitness also features a comprehensive platform that could be folded up into a quite small size. As you can see from the pictures, it’s even thinner than a cabinet. Click Youtube Video Here. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Most fat people admit that, the most embarrassing moment is to stand on a weighing scale, as they may find the pointer runs and runs to an incredible big number. But what will happen after that? They keep eating and eating, totally forgetting that terrible number. Well, the Riant Weighing Scale sounds like a useful tool in such a situation. Because it will let out a shrill sound of pendulums crashing when you weigh heavier than the desired weight (you could set an ideal number previously). [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well, though commonly taken for a mini CD player, the kettle-shaped device is actually a piece of fitness equipment that saves you much space. Constructed with 7 bells, you may do a variety of strength exercise to you own need.

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Not like other injures, fracture calls for a physiotherapy routine to recovery, and the Recovery Sling by Sungjoon Kim is just something that may help you to build back your skeletons. Except to keep your fractured arm immovable, the adjustable arm loop also acts as a rehab aid that allows you to do adequate muscle-building exercises.

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The muscle tester, an achievement from bioengineering Institute of Rice University, is developed to fix palms, separate each figures, and measure the strength of certain hand muscles accurately. In that way, the device makes it easier for doctors from neurology department and surgical department to check out their muscle recovery condition of the patients.

No woman will like to see their weight going up, except for pregnant ones. Although weight will trouble them, they still like to give their baby more nutrition. So weight is a good thing for them. But merely number is not enough, and so this scale measures your weight by showing expanding waistline pictures spaced at 20 pound intervals. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Having a pair of sexy slim legs is the dream of most ladies. As a matter of fact, exercise is one of the most effective way to form slim legs. What? You’re lazy but still want sexy legs? Then you may like this slippers.

Because of lacking heels, you have to tight the muscle of your legs and so your legs are gonna be more sexy. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This so-called E-motion roller system allows you to ride a real bicycle on rollers. In other words, you can get the same experience as riding a real bike outside.

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Exercising in fitness room is good for our health, but this kind of action actually wastes a lot of energy. So architect Mitchell Joachim and personal trainer Douglas Joachim designed this floating gym. It can floating like a boat and is powered by the exerciser themselves, you can get the beautiful scene and practice at the same time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Conventional weight scale comes with a hidden rotary part which is used to tell the weight. But the rotary part of this scale is exposed outside and so when you are standing on it you will start rotating to point the right number. You can get your weight even without reading the scale.

Because of the unique structure of this scale, it can be used in two ways by turning it 180 ْ. Both the bowl and the flat surface of the bottom is available when you want to weight the ingredients.

For those always working in front of the computers, lacking exercise is one of the most severe problems and is easy to be ignored. If you have a fit chair I think you have to take more exercise. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you like exercise you may want to have a fitness room in your house. But a room big enough might be a problem for you. Now, you don’t have to worry about this kind of problem. With a closet like this, you will have enough exercise in your own house and will not occupy large space. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Because of the special structure, this scale may be adjusted to fit anyone including disabled persons. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The display of this scale is hidden under the sliding cover. Plus, it’s color is pretty elegant. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Why, you may wonder, should a beautiful girl wear a pair of blue glasses like this while eating?
Actually, based on the research, blue is the least appetizing color on the spectrum. In other words, food will not be so delicious as it is, when you wear blue glasses. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Exercising gonna make you stronger, but much energy is lost in this process. This Cycool could cool you by your own energy. Although just a mechanic construction could directly power the fan, a electronic one could be controlled easier. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wanna know your weight, you have to ask your partner. But I doubt whether he/she will tell you the truth. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You wanna lose 80% of your weight instantly? You wanna break a world record? You should try this G-trainer. No, it is not a normal treadmill but with a anti-gravity system.

Just press the button, the air compressor gonna increase the pressure inside, which could compensate for your body weight, adjustable up to 80% compensation in increments of 1%. Since this kind of system won’t restrict your body moving like water, you could run much faster than ever before, even breaking the world record. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This design is made from paper electronic combining a pressure sensing sheet. In order to be as thin as possible, the information is displayed via e-paper.
Since this scale is waterproof, it could even be used as a mat to help you get your weight every time you stepped into the bathroom. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For some people, weight is one kind of privacy as secret as age. So they don’t hope their weighting to be seen when they are weighting. In this weird design, the window of weight is moved right underneath your feet; accordingly, other can’t read your privacy. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With an extra wireless handle, you could read your weight without bowing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Rsearchers has approved that with less gravity, training under the water is a better way to have release stress and practice your muscles with less injury risk.

So, this training equipment is a good one. While excising, it seems that you’re running in a aquarium. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You want light? Then punch the lamp. The more you punch it, the lighter it is. After a while you gonna know how hard to receive electric power, and you gonna saving more power in daily life. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Standing on the scale and see which animal are you weight. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is an AD T-shirt from Power House. It intends to tell you, losing weight is sooo easy, if you join Power House. [Read the rest of this entry...]